Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4674, William Foster, Va

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Foster, William Nancy
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Virginia 3489
Vance Foster
Widow of William Foster, deceased a pensioner under the Act of May 15 1828 who died on the 11 January 1837 — of Culpeper Co in the State of Virginia who was a priv. of Arty in the Company commanded by Captain Con of the regt commanded by Col. Harrison in the Virginia line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond at the rate of 160 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 11th day of Jan y 1837 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Jan y 1841 and sent to M rs Nancy Foster, Rileyville, Culpeper Co. Va
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1841 $ 398.61 Semi-annual allowance ending 4/2/41 50.00
$448.60
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 2 d }
Recorded by Book C
D. M. Canby Clerk, Vol. 1 , Page 169
Let to Hon. L. Banks, Jan 12. 1841. — do to Hon. J. S. Barbour May 19. 1847
Letter to James Barbour 9. July 1847.
Died 3 March 1848.

Commonwealth of Virginia. Giles County ss
This is to certify that I this day called upon Mrs. Martha Foster, who is the widow of William Foster deceased, who is about 80 years of age, very infirm and unable to attend court. I read over to her carefully and distinctly the foregoing declaration and after reading the same parts of the same as she has no knowledge or recollection of the same, she made oath in solemn form of law to the accuracy and substance of the same in every particular by making her mark thereto. I have known her and her husband the late Wm. Foster for 40 years. Her said husband as I have always heard was one of the bravest soldiers of the revolution. He was overseer for many years of the slaves who then spoke of his gallantry and uncommon sense with great interest. Not also Foster was in the army of the revolution in the southern part of the state and in the military service of the U.S. during the war and as brave a soldier as any who fought in the battles of his country are renowned and well established facts in this County all of which are respectfully certified.
Richard H. Field Dec 28 th 1840.

Virginia To wit
I Robert G Ward clerk of the circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Culpeper do hereby certify that the Hon ble Richard H Field whose signature is appended to the foregoing paper is presiding Judge of the said Court, that the Signature and interlineations and certificate appended thereto are in his hand writing and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts and I also certify that A. P. Hill Esq. whose name is subscribed to the affidavit of Griffin Read is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court this 22 nd day of December 1840. R. G. Ward C
Catletson Dec 24 th 1840
The foregoing William Foster was whilst living the same William Foster who was on the pension roll, under the act of May 15 th 1828, as a Matross of artillery. I speak of the fact from personal knowledge. I knew him 31 years ago. He has always been known & respected as one of the bravest & best of men of the Revolution, & as fighting through the war. He was one of the "Culpeper Minute Men" who fought Fordyce at the Great Bridge — J. S. Barbour

- declaration 7
In order to obtain the benefit of the second section of the act of Congress approved the 3 rd March 1857.
State of Virginia Giles County ss.
On this 21 st day of Dec r .
The census 1840 personally returned before the Judge of the Sixth district of Eleventh Circuit, in the State of Kentucky, returned, (of which Circuit the said County of Breckinridge makes a part) Mrs Nancy Foster a resi- dent of Parish in the County of Breckinridge & State
of Virginia a few about fifty years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed March 3 rd 1837: That she is the widow
There is a broken line in the middle of the page above the line of the Golden Bridge
in the battle, of German Town, Brandywine Mira Monte, (I some other battles, of which the battle at the siege of York, & the surrender of Cornwallis
She further declared that she was married to said William Foster to the best of her recollection on the 8 th day of March 1778. [The Eighth day

day of March in the year One Thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Eight, And that her husband the aforesaid William Foster died on the eleventh or twelfth day of January One Thousand eight hundred & forty seven as she very believes; And that she has remained a widow ever since that period, As will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed: And she further declares that she was married to the said William Foster Whilst he was in the Military Service of the United States, & in such Service he continued to the close of the war; that for the said Foster, her said hus- band, was for his services a pensioner, of the United States, under the act of Congress of May 15 th 1828 That she thinks his enlistment in the Regular Army was in the year 1776, or 1777, after having served a year in the Minute Service in Virginia; And that she was married to him Whilst he was in the Regular Service of the United States, in the Virginia line on Continental establishment.
Teste R. H. Field
Mary Foster
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written, before me, the Judge of the General Court of Virginia, of the district & circuit aforesaid.
Richard H. Field
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William Foster Esq
on May 15. 1828
when paid. . . a 1837
Died 11 th Jan y . 1837 percie to that period
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W. Hays

William Foster d. Jan 11. 1837 Nancy Foster m. 1778 ad. 1828. N o 826
Mattah Jr See C. Harrison

Dec 3. 1820.
Stephensville Dec 1 st [Signature]
The Governor General of Louisiana
826
Mar ch 1780
Wm Foster vaidl 28
Washington City
U.C.
Dear Sir

Very
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4674
Nancy Foster
Wid.
Wm Foster
Pro. Va. line
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Index:—Vol. A , Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 28. 1840 Inat.
h 5239. Jan July 4. 1836.
Mr. J. L. Gann
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Washington (P. S.)
Hon. L. Banks HR

Washington 26 th Dec r 1860
Mr J. L. Eanard
Sir, I am requested to forward you the inclosed application for a Pension, and to which I request your early attention.
Yrs. S ir Linn Banks

Nancy Foster Wid of William VS
As July 4 1832
Marr'd 1778
died 1837
Allan $100 per ann 1837 from
for Adultry Value Lt Hanson
See Act May 15 1828 No 826
Mrs Nancy Foster Roxeyville P.O. Culpeper Co Va

Jan 12 1871
Mrs. Nancy Nokes Mrs. J. L. Stevens
John P. Lankton M c Clure H. and Boyd H. D.
3 - Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania Washington
Mail

House of Representatives 11 th July 1841.
Sir) Some time ago, I forwarded to your office, the declaration of My Father of the County of Guilford Vap. asking to be placed upon the Pension list. I have received no answer to her application, may I ask your early attention to the case.
The certificates of Pension granted to My Father & Powell I have received and forwarded them which I have no doubt will be gratefully received
Very respectfully Yours L. Banks

Nancy Foster, widow of William, Virginia Roll, act of July 4. 1836, at $100 per annum.
Be pleased to say to what time pay- ment was last made in the case.
Pearson Office May 18. 1847.
Paid to 1 st March 1842.
BIB

Mrs Folsom requests that her correspondence for the pension may be sent her by mail to Rexyville P. O. Cumberland Va. & the forms by which she may now be allowed to draw what is due. Very Respectfully &c
J. L. Barbour
Decr 24 th 1882
Recd: J. L. Edwards

Oct 36 No 3489, De
Appleton Arrivals of 12/21/36 in care Nancy Foster, Dept D
Mr Evans
Official Business
PRNT
Colonel J. J. Edwards, Comdr.
Washington City
D.C.

Culpeper Co. Va. July 1 st 1897
Colonel J. S. Edwards Comm'r of Pensions
Sir,
I enclose
the declaration of Martin Tompkins administrator of Mrs. Nancy Foster, made in order to enable him to claim the arrears of pension due his intestate at her death together with the certificate of the court of the county. I presume that this is all that your department requires. Mr. Tompkins desires that you will make an early communication to me as may be convenient.
Respectfully Jas. Barbour

May 6, 1845
Recd of Nancy Foster
[Faint circular stamp]
Ms. A. 1. 1. Edward Committee of Pensions
Washed of the 28th
Official Stamp

Sir
Adelphi May 1 st 1847.
The children of the late Mrs. Mary Foster - who was the widow of William Foster a soldier for the war in the Revolution. say that there is nearly one year's pension due to her & to them as her descendants. They also state that her son E. F. Foster prepared the papers to draw it, & was in correspondence with you upon this claim - It is believed by them that there was some defect in the proof or in the proceedings preliminary to their drawing the remainder of her pension - I presume that the papers in your office will show what has been done, what is the defect in the proof or the proceedings & what is now re- quired by you to secure & pay this right to the remainder of her pension due her & her children.
You will also see by my copy of the letter that you can find room for him. I write at this instance one of them being now with me, & protracting his duty.
Yr. very Resp. J. L. Brown

Nancy Foster mother of Wm Foster dwd Ad July 4 1836
Ad to her Dec 4 1840
3489

To Mrs. S. L. Edwards Consent of Pension
The undersigned is the widow of William Foster who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War of the Virginia  Continental line in Continental Service. The said William Foster was distinguished in several battles, by his gallantry & good conduct and the strongest evidence was borne him by those who served with him. He fought through the whole of the war & was put upon the pension roll under the act of Congress of the 15th May 1828 and he continued to draw his pension during his life & up to the year 1836 when he died leaving the undersigned as his widow; poor & needy. She is informed that she is by law entitled to a pension from the day of his death so long as she may live. The undersigned represents that she was married duly according to law to said William Foster, or well as she remembers in March 1780, and her now borne eleven children, all of whom she raised up upwardly & uprightly to their majority. Nine of them are now living. She needs the pension, and she asks that you will inform her whether it is her right & that you will be good enough to send her the usual forms for drawing it, enclosed to her Post Office, which is Rexyville Puchepier County Virginia, & she as in duty bound will ever pray.
Nancy Foster Mark.
Rexyville Puchepier Va Nov 29 th 1840

State of Virginia One per cent. &c.
This day the Reverend Griffith Read of the State & County aforesaid, made oath before me a justice of the peace for the County of Pulaski, that he knew well the late William Foster, who was a Soldier in the Continental line in the Revolutionary War. That he knows & now knows his wife Miss Nancy Foster, both as the wife of said Foster, & as Miss Nancy Blackwell before her marriage with said William Foster. That they both lived in the high neighbourhood of his said father, that he well knows & remembers their marriage, as he thinks & believes in the year 1778 that his recollection of their marriage is distinct & it took place during the war of the revolution. Said Foster had been from home in service & as he understood & believes, away in some of the hard battles to the north, with the British. He returned to Pulaski for a very short time, was married & then went back to the army again in the regular service.
He has known them ever since; they have remained as man & wife until his death about three or four years ago, raised a large & respectable family of children, & he believes

They raised eleven children, two of whom are said to be dead & nine now alive. Said Sir Read also made oath that three of his sisters were present at the marriage of said Foster & wife & he thinks he was himself, (his said sisters are now dead), if he did not see them when the marriage took place, (which he thinks he did, he knows he was present immediately after they lived as husband & wife afterwards, until his death; & she (Mrs Nancy Foster) his widow is now alive. He speaks with positive & absolute certainty, as to these facts for he has known her Mr. Foster & wife more than sixty years, born & raised in the same neighborhood, & the same country, & of the marriage during his service , as officiating , & his service afterwards, there remaining to father or mother or wife to the knowledge of the whole country around him, & of his reputation bearing a large family, & his death & her widow- hood he speaks with the certainty & distinctness of personal knowledge -
Given under my hand & seal this 18 th day of December 1840.
A. P. Hille Seely
M c Gowan Read is now very old & too infirm to go to court. He is an exemplary & pious member of the Baptist church. his character for truth & integrity is as pure as any man's. He was a minister of the gospel many years tho' he now very rarely preaches. (I have known him 30 years) J. V. Bratton